Allison C. Meier is a former staff writer for Hyperallergic. Originally from Oklahoma, she has been covering visual culture and overlooked history for print and online media since 2006. She moonlights as a cemetery tour guide.
Art
From 1942 to 1943, while Paris was occupied by Nazi Germany, photographer Robert Doisneau documented the ongoing work of the scientists in the city's natural history museum.
Art
Field books capture essential information for ecological history but are often difficult to track down in scientific collections.
News
With the Rubin Museum of Art's recent acquisition of a mid-18th-century manuscript known as White Beryl, the Manhattan museum now holds the world's leading collection of Tibetan astrological and cosmological paintings.
Art
"I view Patin chiefly as an under appreciated pioneer in the field of women’s scholarship rather than just in art historical studies," Nicola J. Shilliam, bibliographer at the library, told Hyperallergic.
Art
BEIJING — Between two Beijing galleries, Ai Weiwei has divided a 400-year-old temple’s 1,500 worn, wooden pieces.
Performance
Audiences entering the black box space of BAM Fisher in Brooklyn for More up a Tree found a transparent room containing a man sprawled on his back, and a woman nervously pacing.
Books
While the grandest glories of the French Renaissance were the elaborate castles circling Paris and adorning the Loire Valley, down in Central France a much smaller art form flourished.
Art
Number of magnetic tape recordings in museums and other archives that won't be possible to digitize in 20 years due to changing technology and disintegration = 46,000,000
Art
One of the most popular images of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn is "Custer's Last Stand" by Cassilly Adams, who ditched historical accuracy for a romanticized George Armstrong Custer standing tall against the encroaching horde of horseback warriors.
Art
A new data visualization tool called Histography transforms Wikipedia's entries on historic events into an interactive timeline
Art
The same year that Albrecht Dürer created his famous rhinoceros woodcut, the German artist also collaborated on the first star charts printed in Europe.
Art
Jacob Riis may have set his house on fire twice, and himself aflame once, as he perfected the new 19th-century flash photography technique, but when the magnesium powder erupted with a white, blinding light, he illuminated some of the darkest corners of Manhattan's impoverished tenements.